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Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, Outing, Dysphoria
Moderate: Religious bigotry
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical content
Minor: Deadnaming
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Transphobia, Gaslighting
Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia
Minor: Child abuse, Deadnaming
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Transphobia
Moderate: Body shaming, Hate crime, Medical content
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Stalking
I love Felix, all of his good sides and bad sides, his friendship with Ezra is so amazing. As a queer person who also is questioning my gender, it felt really good to read about somebody else with similar thoughts. His search for love and all the feelings that comes with it is so so real, and the insecurity you can feel around your own art are so well portrayed. My favorite character is easily Leah, and I love how her friendship with Felix grew through the book. I really appreciated showing different family's dynamics, and how being a part of LGBTQIA+ can change it. The book deals with a lot of heavy topics without making you feel drained or gloomy, instead it gives you hope for a change in the world. It really gives a slap in the face to people that can't stand other people being different. We are here, we are queer, and we are here to stay.
It was so moving, and it really made me reflect about a lot in life that I maybe take for granted.
I will recommend this to everybody, not only queer folk, because if more people see the problem with transphobia and homophobia, how much it affects people and how you can break somebody down with it, I hope more people would think before they speak, and the people that are watching, silent at the side would start speaking up for people.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Transphobia
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I love that this book exists for young adults. I wish I could have read this in high school or college. Seeing the world through Felix’s eyes is so powerful and it is clear that Callender is sharing lived experiences. This portrait of coming of age and first love is joyful and heartbreaking and triumphant. The writing is very raw, vulnerable and true and the drama and intensity with which these young adult characters live their lives is so realistic to my own emotions and experiences in high school. Finding out who you want to be and wondering wether or not you are worthy of love is such a universal experience. Being trans, queer and a Demiboy are much more specific and really open the reader’s heart to important issues of acceptance of others, no matter how you relate. This was such an enjoyable, powerful read!
Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use